- Date
- May 21, 2010, 17:37 local (17:37 UTC)
- Place
- Rio Negro, Bolivar, Venezuela
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- YV158ECessna 182
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 77762
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Factual narrative
On May 21, 2010, about 1737 universal coordinated time, a Cessna 182F, Venezuelan registration YV158E, operated by Corona's Pilot Escuela de Aviacion, was destroyed after it impacted an electrical cable during a training flight in Rio Negro, Estado Bolivar, Venezuela. The flight instructor and a trainee were killed. The local instructional flight was operated under Venezuelan flight regulations, and had departed from General Manuel Carlos Piar International Airport (SVPR), Estado Bolivar, Venezuela. This investigation is under jurisdiction of the Government of Venezuela. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from: Junta Investigadora de Accidentes de Aviación Ministerio del Poder Popular para las Obras Publicas y Vivienda Av. Francisco de Miranda Torre MINFRA, Piso-20 Caracas, Venezuela Telephone: (0212) 2015491 This report is for informational purposes, and only contains information released by the Government of Venezuela.
Aircraft
- Registration
- YV158E
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (F)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18254672
- Engine
- Continental O470, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator
- Corona's Pilot Escuela de Aviacion
- Registered owner
- Corona's Pilot Escuela de Aviacion
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- SVPR · Guayana Bolivar
- Destination
- SVPR · Guayana Bolivar
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- SVPR · General Manuel Carlos Piar Int
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Injuries
- Fatal
- Role
- Student pilot
- Injuries
- Fatal
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 16, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 7 KB in all.